Ἰώβ 29
1 ἔτι δὲ προσθεὶς Ιωβ εἶπεν τῷ προοιμίῳ
Moreover, Job continued his parable, and said,
2 τίς ἄν με θείη κατὰ μῆνα ἔμπροσθεν ἡμερῶν ὧν με ὁ θεὸς ἐφύλαξεν
Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me;
3 ὡς ὅτε ηὔγει ὁ λύχνος αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆς μου ὅτε τῷ φωτὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπορευόμην ἐν σκότει
When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness;
4 ὅτε ἤμην ἐπιβρίθων ὁδοῖς ὅτε ὁ θεὸς ἐπισκοπὴν ἐποιεῖτο τοῦ οἴκου μου
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle;
5 ὅτε ἤμην ὑλώδης λίαν κύκλῳ δέ μου οἱ παῖδες
When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children [were] about me;
6 ὅτε ἐχέοντό μου αἱ ὁδοὶ βουτύρῳ τὰ δὲ ὄρη μου ἐχέοντο γάλακτι
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
7 ὅτε ἐξεπορευόμην ὄρθριος ἐν πόλει ἐν δὲ πλατείαις ἐτίθετό μου ὁ δίφρος
When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street!
8 ἰδόντες με νεανίσκοι ἐκρύβησαν πρεσβῦται δὲ πάντες ἔστησαν
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up.
9 ἁδροὶ δὲ ἐπαύσαντο λαλοῦντες δάκτυλον ἐπιθέντες ἐπὶ στόματι
The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth.
10 οἱ δὲ ἀκούσαντες ἐμακάρισάν με καὶ γλῶσσα αὐτῶν τῷ λάρυγγι αὐτῶν ἐκολλήθη
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
11 ὅτι οὖς ἤκουσεν καὶ ἐμακάρισέν με ὀφθαλμὸς δὲ ἰδών με ἐξέκλινεν
When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me:
12 διέσωσα γὰρ πτωχὸν ἐκ χειρὸς δυνάστου καὶ ὀρφανῷ ᾧ οὐκ ἦν βοηθός ἐβοήθησα
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.
13 εὐλογία ἀπολλυμένου ἐπ’ ἐμὲ ἔλθοι στόμα δὲ χήρας με εὐλόγησεν
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
14 δικαιοσύνην δὲ ἐνεδεδύκειν ἠμφιασάμην δὲ κρίμα ἴσα διπλοΐδι
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem.
15 ὀφθαλμὸς ἤμην τυφλῶν ποὺς δὲ χωλῶν
I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame.
16 ἐγὼ ἤμην πατὴρ ἀδυνάτων δίκην δέ ἣν οὐκ ᾔδειν ἐξιχνίασα
I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.
17 συνέτριψα δὲ μύλας ἀδίκων ἐκ δὲ μέσου τῶν ὀδόντων αὐτῶν ἅρπαγμα ἐξέσπασα
And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
18 εἶπα δέ ἡ ἡλικία μου γηράσει ὥσπερ στέλεχος φοίνικος πολὺν χρόνον βιώσω
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand.
19 ἡ ῥίζα μου διήνοικται ἐπὶ ὕδατος καὶ δρόσος αὐλισθήσεται ἐν τῷ θερισμῷ μου
My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
20 ἡ δόξα μου καινὴ μετ’ ἐμοῦ καὶ τὸ τόξον μου ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ πορεύσεται
My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
21 ἐμοῦ ἀκούσαντες προσέσχον ἐσιώπησαν δὲ ἐπὶ τῇ ἐμῇ βουλῇ
To me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
22 ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ ἐμῷ ῥήματι οὐ προσέθεντο περιχαρεῖς δὲ ἐγίνοντο ὁπόταν αὐτοῖς ἐλάλουν
After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
23 ὥσπερ γῆ διψῶσα προσδεχομένη τὸν ὑετόν οὕτως οὗτοι τὴν ἐμὴν λαλιάν
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
24 ἐὰν γελάσω πρὸς αὐτούς οὐ μὴ πιστεύσωσιν καὶ φῶς τοῦ προσώπου μου οὐκ ἀπέπιπτεν
[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
25 ἐξελεξάμην ὁδὸν αὐτῶν καὶ ἐκάθισα ἄρχων καὶ κατεσκήνουν ὡσεὶ βασιλεὺς ἐν μονοζώνοις ὃν τρόπον παθεινοὺς παρακαλῶν
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners.
